A not-so-exhaustive list of Frequently Asked Questions… Got a Question?  Comment Below and I’ll reply with an answer!

• How’s Africa?
  • That’s a difficult question to answer. You see Africa is a continent, of which I have seen relatively nothing so I can’t really say.  I can answer questions you might have about Lesotho, or traveling in and around Southern Africa.  But speaking about Africa as a single unit is like speaking of South America as all one thing.
• How’s Lesotho?
  • Thank you for asking! Lesotho is many things, it is lovely and familiar and foreign and new.  Lesotho is beautiful!  The people are hospitable, the women are strong, the love is overwhelming.
• What’s the hardest part?
  • The hardest things have not been material or physical. The hardest part is always being the outsider, the other, different.  We are all one, and yet sometimes our differences draw unwanted attention, or the feelings of alienation.  It has been helpful for me to experience this feeling of otherness to make me aware of those who are feeling this way in my own country and community.
• What’s next?
  • Iced Coffee, Chinese Take Out and Hallmark Christmas Movies
• Are you ready to come home?
  • I feel as if it is time to come home. While I love Lesotho and have thoroughly enjoyed my service, part of our work as Peace Corps volunteers and as witnesses to other cultures and countries is to share what we have seen and experienced, and it feels like it is time to do that.  Short answer though, I am ready for iced coffee and chips and salsa!!
• What do they eat?
  • The Basotho eat a hearty diet of Papa – a cooked corn mill, moroho- something like collard greens or cabbage, linao- beans, peas.  They make the most delicious bohobe- bread, and they thuroughly enjoy meat any time they get their hands on it!
• What do you do?
  • I serve as an Education Volunteer.  I am English and Life Skills Teacher in a rural primary school.   I work with Host Country National Teachers in the area of English and Life Skills to improve both learning and teaching.
  • I partner with the staff at my school and members of  my community to work to provide a more student friendly school, through projects, trainings and conversations.
  • But mostly I learn, I learn about the Basotho culture and I share my American culture.
  • Peace Corps is working towards peace and friendship… most of what I do falls in the “friendship” category.
• How do you spend your free time?
  • Domestic chores take up a lot of my free time, but I do spend a good amount of time: reading, watching movies and shows on my laptop (when it is charged), visiting with my neighbors and village kiddos, hiking/ exploring
• Would you do it again?
  • YES.  And I’d encourage others to as well!
• What’s your favorite part?
  • The friendships and the family that I have formed here.
  • The rhythm and speed of life.
  • The views.
  • My sweet round home.